Abstract:The paper attempts to look at the nature, causes and extent of child labour, adolescent
employment and educational marginalization India, with special focus on Maharashtra. It tries to
explain the reason behind 'inactive' or 'nowhere children', a category which is used to denote
children who are absent from both employment sector as well as educational institutions.
Explanatory factors like per capita GDP, literacy rate and work participation rate have been used
for the same. Analysis shows that states like Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam have the
largest percentage of working children. At the same time percentage of population of 'Nowhere'
Children and adolescent population is negatively related to literacy rate, gross state domestic
product per capita and work participation rate. Besides, various factors like urbanisation, level of
manufacturing and economic structure of the state also inform the distribution of nowhere
children'.

The International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research Inviting Papers/Articles for Current Issue Volume 4 No. 9 September 2019.
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